[+/-] Bush judges most conservative on rights

A nonpartisan study of thousands of federal court cases has found that judges appointed by Bushare the most conservative on record in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties. "George W. Bush is the most conservative president that we have data for," Karp said. "In civil rights and liberties cases, his judges were 25 percent more conservative than those of other Republicans."

The study was published in Judicature, the publication of the American Judicature Society, a nonpartisan organization of judges, lawyers and others involved in justice administration.